On Tuesday 19 February 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: > The "or any other emulator" is exactly where my question is directed at. > > Xen, KVM or even qemu come into my mind, but considering how loudly you > complained about a temporary breakage for VirtualBox there must be a > reason why your work on the Debian Installer can only be done > effectively and efficiently with an emulator module that has AFAIK not > been submitted for inclusion in the kernel.
- Xen is currently not supported by the kernel Debian Installer uses (though work is being done to change that. - KVM AFAIK requires hardware support that I don't have. - QEMU is completely useless because of its slow speed without the (also out of tree) kqemu module, which does not work when the host system is x86_64 [1]. Also, I very much prefer the VirtualBox user interface over what qemu has to offer. - I've actually used VMWare for a long time (licenced), but stopped after the 5 series stopped working with current kernels and around that time VirtualBox became available as an alternative. Hope that explains. Cheers, FJP [1] http://bugs.debian.org/444160 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
